The Process Of Making Contact Lenses Back in 1940 Was Creepy As Hell

Do you dislike your contact lenses? Well, here's one more reason to be paranoid about them. Or may be not.

British Pathe has just rediscovered this rare video of a 1948 contact lens advertisement, touted as a new kind of glasses for people to wear. Indeed, contact lenses are common and safer nowadays, but back then, they were truly weird and genuinely cringeworthy at times.

The Horrifying Experience

The Suction Begins

Well, why should the woman need to have her eyes paralyzed? Because the optometrist will insert a suction cup directly on her eye to form a mold using some weird sort of goo. That's right. Back then, they would have required a mold of an eyeball.